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Russian Nights
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‘Russian Nights’ Festival is the largest, most ambitious and most varied festival of Russian culture ever to be staged in London. It brings a remarkable range of music and theatre, painting and poetry, photography and architecture to the capital. The ancient and the modern, the grandiose and the intimate, the classic and the curious, Russian Nights brings the essence of Russian culture, at the heart of which lies a sense of mystery and revelation.
Russia, with its unique blend of two traditions – Orthodox Christian spirituality and European Romanticism – has always aimed at turning art into an instrument for the transfiguration of reality, a vision of the infinite within the finite. At night, as the trivialities of life recede, allowing for the transcendental, night becomes the time for creativity and art.
Also in this issue: Russian Insonmia by Valery Turchin, Russian Nights at Kenwood House by Cecily Fell, as well as Rachmaninov's Vespers: All-Night Vigil by Marina Rakhmanova, tales An Ode to the Samovar and all things of the Russian night…